*sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* Hey!

If this video or better yet if you found this channel then you're you're pretty lucky. *laughs* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* Hey!

Welcome to my channel.

My name is Bert.

I'm an artist.

A designer.

I've been online since 1994.

I've never had a YouTube channel.

I've never really published anything personal of substance online ever.

Primarily out of fear.

More than anything else.

And I'm going to use this channel as a part of my website which is sharing artwork to highlight mental health issues.

Mental health awareness.

Like you like many of you I've been dealing with a lot of mental health issues mental health issues definitely since the COVID times. *sounds of the car* And I've been grappling with a lot.

I have *sounds of the car* for the last 18 months *sounds of the car* have been going *sounds of the car* through a long stretch of unemployment.

I'm going through a *sounds of the car* long stretch of homelessness. *sounds of the car* for example *sounds of the car* 10 and a half months of this year I was living in my car *sounds of the car* just one step away from the street *sounds of the car* and *sounds of the car* also during all these months I'm still making my way through a do-it-yourself *sounds of the car* at least on my side as far as I know *sounds of the car* a do-it-yourself divorce *sounds of the car* so got a lot going on *sounds of the car* so I'm really in touch with my mental health *sounds of the car* yeah anyhow *sounds of the car* I've got to introduce myself *sounds of the car* introduce the channel *sounds of the car* I've been online a long time *sounds of the car* and the fact that I'm still around online *sounds of the car* damn it *sounds of the car* since 1994 because I've been building websites and designing all kinds of crap but for other people they're paying me not my own stuff so there you go welcome to the channel subscribe, share the stuff especially with the website and the artwork that is very important to me is the artwork's purpose is to stimuli conversation *sounds of the car* for basically stimuli conversation *sounds of the car* it's objective really is to *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* the art's objective is really to stimuli conversation more than anything *sounds of the car* *sounds of the car* in most cases these are topics that are taboo or people just don't want to talk about because they make them uncomfortable you know people don't want to get in touch with their themselves they're avoiding things they're stuffing things down they're doing all sorts of things and they're not talking about all those things on this channel because I'm going to tell my damn story not tell the origin story I'm going to let I rip and not in any kind of mean way you know this isn't about being nasty with people or seeing people this is about telling a story from the perspective mental health perspective because one of the things certainly having had mental health challenges in some form since easily my teenage years so we're talking about four decades of challenges in the mental health space so I think I got some experience in this world with regards to that certainly in the early years because people didn't talk about it I didn't even know what was going on with me I mean I knew shit was going on but I didn't know names or labels or I didn't even know if it was normal abnormal I couldn't speak up I was afraid and I'll get to that fearful stuff too anyhow subscribe share and check out the artwork alright be real and be well